Observational Evidence of a Stratospheric Influence on the Troposphere by Planetary Wave Reflection.

By J. Perlwitz, N. Harnik. 2003

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Subfields: Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change

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• Stratosphere key for wintertime atmospheric response to warm Atlantic decadal conditions (2014, methodology): “3 Anomalous changes for 1951–1960 relative to 1961-1990 for a SST (Rayner et al. 2003) (JFM) restricted to the Atlantic region and used in our main atmospheric model experiments (in K), b winter (JFM) 1,000 hPa geopotential height (in gpm; see Kalnay et al. 1996), c and the evolution of air…”
• SOLAR INFLUENCES ON CLIMATE (2010, unknown): “…structure of the tropopause region [e.g., Hartley et al., 1998; Black, 2002], modification of the refraction [Hartmann et al., 2000] or reflection [Perlwitz and Harnik, 2003] of upward propagating planetary‐scale waves, and feedbacks between changes in the mean flow and tropospheric baroclinic…”
• Arctic Oscillation response to volcanic eruptions in the IPCC AR4 climate models (2006, background): “: VOLCANIC IMPACTS IN THE IPCC AR4 MODELS by negative wind shear in the mid-stratosphere [Perlwitz and Harnik, 2003].”
• Bi-decadal variability excited in the coupled ocean–atmosphere system by strong tropical volcanic eruptions (2012, background): “Feedbacks of this non-uniform heating with internally-generated variability, including interactions between the strengthened polar vortex and vertical upward propagation of planetary waves (Kodera 1994; Perlwitz and Harnik 2003; Graf et al. 2007), can lead to a strong positive phase of the troposp”
• Transfer of the solar signal from the stratosphere to the troposphere: Northern winter (2004, unknown): “Perlwitz and Harnik [2003, 2004] additionally discuss the reflection of waves from the stratosphere back to the troposphere.”
• Sudden Stratospheric Warmings (2020, background): “Planetary wave absorption and reflection (Perlwitz & Harnik, 2003; Shaw et al., 2010; Kodera et al., 2016) 3.”
• The dynamical response to snow cover perturbations in a large ensemble of atmospheric GCM integrations. (2008, background): “Many hypotheses have been put forward on stratospheric control (see, e.g., Perlwitz and Harnik 2003; Norton 2003; Limpasuvan et al. 2004; Gerber et al. 2008; Ring and Plumb 2007).”
• Assessing and understanding the impact of stratospheric dynamics and variability on the earth system (2012, background): “In addition to the zonal coupling between the polar vortex and jet stream, Perlwitz and Harnik (2003) show evidence of direct coupling between planetary waves in the stratosphere and the troposphere.”
• Does the Holton–Tan Mechanism Explain How the Quasi-Biennial Oscillation Modulates the Arctic Polar Vortex? (2012, background): “The reflecting surface appears when the wind shear ›u/›z is negative (Perlwitz and Harnik 2003), and in the sheared case the vertical zonal wind shear is negative in the tropics between 2 and 10 hPa (triangles in Fig.”
• The influence of stratospheric vortex displacements and splits on surface climate (2013, background): “Among the leading theories are wave–mean flow interactions (Christiansen 2001; Wittman et al. 2007) and wave reflections at the strato-pause (Perlwitz and Harnik 2003).”
• Solar Influence on Global and Regional Climates (2012, methodology): “Models (e.g., Shindell et al. 2001a, b) predict that perturbations can descend from the stratosphere to the surface by altering the propagation of planetary waves coming up from the surface, an effect that has been observed in data (Perlwitz and Harnik 2003).”
• Downward Coupling between the Stratosphere and Troposphere: The Relative Roles of Wave and Zonal Mean Processes* (2004, background): “Recently, an observational study using new dynamical and statistical diagnostics found evidence for reflection in the Northern Hemisphere upper stratosphere, with an impact on the structure of tropospheric waves of zonal wavenumber 1 (Perlwitz and Harnik 2003, hereafter PH).”
• The predictability of the extratropical stratosphere on monthly time‐scales and its impact on the skill of tropospheric forecasts (2015, methodology): “(2014) through singular-value decomposition of re-analysis data (e.g. Perlwitz and Harnik, 2003, 2004) but more recently other authors have used cross-spectral correlation analysis (Shaw et al., 2010) to show the impact of the downward propagating reflected wave energy on planetary wave structure…”
• The Remarkably Strong Arctic Stratospheric Polar Vortex of Winter 2020: Links to Record‐Breaking Arctic Oscillation and Ozone Loss (2020, background): “…waves because the zonal wind minima in the lowto middle-latitude lower and middle stratosphere act to meridionally confine waves, and the strong negative zonal wind shear acts as a vertical “cap” beyond which wave propagation is impaired (Harnik, 2009; Perlwitz & Harnik, 2003; Shaw et al., 2010).”